Bodya, who operates an Igla shoulder-launched missile with Kyiv’s 112th Territorial Defence Brigade, measures the jet-drone problem in seconds. Some targets cross his unit’s engagement area in as little as 20, he told the Kyiv Independent. Nearby, a soldier called Gendalf flies Sting interceptor drones that reach about 320 km/h at full throttle. Some of the jet-powered Gerans they are meant to catch fly at about 600 km/h. The cheapest layer of Ukraine’s air defence has been outrun, and a small industry is now racing to build a faster one.
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